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Female Irish Catholic Rebels in the Irish Rebellion of 1641. Edwin Marshall Galloway East Tennessee State University East Tennessee State University Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Student Works 8-2011 Thieves Apostates and Bloody Viragos: Female Irish Catholic Rebels in the Irish Rebellion of 1641. Edwin Marshall Galloway East Tennessee State University Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.etsu.edu/etd Part of the European History Commons, and the Women's History Commons Recommended Citation Galloway, Edwin Marshall, "Thieves Apostates and Bloody Viragos: Female Irish Catholic Rebels in the Irish Rebellion of 1641." (2011). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1322. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1322 This Thesis - Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Works at Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Thieves, Apostates, and “Bloody Viragos:” Female Irish Catholic Rebels in the Irish Rebellion of 1641 ____________________ A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of History East Tennessee State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Masters of Arts in History ____________________ by E. Marshall Galloway August 2011 ____________________ Brian Maxson., PhD, Chair Melvin E. Page, PhD Judith B. Slagle, PhD Keywords: Ireland, Irish Rebellion of 1641, 1641 Depositions, Gender ABSTRACT Thieves, Apostates, and “Bloody Viragos:” Female Irish Catholic Rebels in the Irish Rebellion of 1641 by E. Marshall Galloway The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the roles played by Irish Catholic women in the Irish Rebellion of 1641. The primary goal is to examine the factors that determined the nature of those roles. To achieve this end, I used the information contained in the 1641 depositions, a collection of sworn statements given by the victims of the rebellion. The depositions are valuable in two ways. First, eyewitness testimony contained therein is generally reliable, and can be used to construct an accurate narrative of the rebellion. Second, less reliable hearsay evidence is crucial to understanding the fears of English and Scottish Protestants and their perceptions of female rebels. I was aided by the earlier efforts of historians such as Nicholas Canny and Mary O’Dowd. In the course of this thesis, I intended to argue that the actions of Irish Catholic women in the rebellion were largely determined by their social status, geographic location, and prior relationships between female rebels and their allies and victims. 2 CONTENTS Page ABSTRACT........................................................................................................................... 2 Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................... 5 The 1641 Depositions: History, Arrangement, and Use..................................... 6 Historiography of Women in the Irish Rebellion of 1641 .................................. 11 2. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND .............................................................................. 16 The Native Irish and the Old English, c.100 BCE – 1534 CE............................ 16 Tudor Policy in Ireland, 1494-1603.................................................................... 20 The Ulster Plantation, 1608-1641....................................................................... 25 The Destabilization of Caroline Ireland, 1613-1641 .......................................... 28 3. ULSTER .................................................................................................................... 31 The Bloody Viragos: Jane Hampson, Anne O’Kelly, and Rose O’Reilly.......... 32 Theft and Apostasy in Ulster .............................................................................. 39 4. LEINSTER................................................................................................................. 41 Murder or Instigation of Murder......................................................................... 41 Theft of Property/Eviction .................................................................................. 42 Aiding the Rebels and Apostasy.......................................................................... 47 3 Chapter Page 5. MUNSTER ................................................................................................................ 49 Murder or Instigation of Murder......................................................................... 49 Theft of Property/Eviction .................................................................................. 49 Aiding the Rebels and Apostasy......................................................................... 51 6. CONNACHT ............................................................................................................. 52 Galway ................................................................................................................ 52 Leitrim................................................................................................................. 55 7. CONCLUSION.......................................................................................................... 56 BIBLIOGRAPHY.................................................................................................................. 59 VITA...................................................................................................................................... 63 4 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION On Friday, October 22, 1641, Irish rebels seized several strategic English military strongholds in Ulster, taking the occupying English completely by surprise. In the wake of this organized rebellion by prominent Irish Catholics against English military targets, several smaller “popular” rebellions spontaneously erupted all over Ulster and to a lesser extent throughout the rest of Ireland. The implications of these localized rebellions have been debated by historians ever since. Five years after the start of the rebellion, Sir John Temple published The Irish Rebellion or, an History of the Attempts of the Irish Papists to Extirpate the Protestants in the Kingdom of Ireland; Together with The Barbarous Cruelties and Bloody Massacres Which Ensued Thereupon. The Irish Rebellion was a blatant work of English Protestant propaganda. Temple highlighted the worst rumors of atrocities that had circulated during and after the rebellion and portrayed the Irish rebels as irredeemable savages. Unfortunately, Temple’s interpretation defined English perceptions of the rebellion and the nature of the Irish people for the next two centuries. Later commentators who published accounts of the rebellion—beginning with Edmond Borlase—heavily borrowed their “evidence,” conclusions, and opinions of the Irish from Temple. The Irish Rebellion itself remained popular through the early nineteenth-century: new editions continued to appear whenever there was a perceived threat of rebellion or invasion in Ireland.1 1 Kathleen M. Noonan, “’Martyrs in Flames:’ Sir John Temple and the Conception of the Irish in English Martyrologies,” Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies 36, no. 2 (Summer, 2004): 223-225. 5 Temple borrowed heavily from official sources to lend credibility to his work, and many of his anecdotes were gleaned from depositions given in 1642 and 1643 by English Protestants who were seeking compensation for property taken during the rebellion. These manuscripts, commonly known as the “1641 depositions,” are now housed in the library of Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Because many modern historians believed Temple’s excerpts to be indicative of the larger body of depositions, this rich historical record was largely ignored until relatively recently.2 The 1641 Depositions: History, Arrangement, and Use In December 1641 a Commission for the Despoiled Subject was created to take statements from displaced Protestant refugees who streamed into Dublin—one of the last English strongholds in Ireland. Henry Jones, Dean of Kilmore, was appointed to head the commission. Jones personally oversaw testimony in Dublin, while Archdeacon Philip Bisse was dispatched to Munster as a sub-commissioner to oversee the collection of testimony there. Together, these commissions were responsible for the production of the majority of the depositions in 1642 and 1643. In the 1650s, Charles Fleetwood—Oliver Cromwell’s son-in-law and Lord Deputy of Ireland—established high courts of justice across Ireland to punish those implicated in the 1641 rebellion. As part of this effort, over seventy army officers and local officials were appointed as commissioners to collect additional testimony. These later manuscripts were eventually combined with those taken in 1642-1643 to form the collection now known as the 1641 2 Nicholas Canny, “The 1641 Depositions: A Source for Social and Cultural History,” History Ireland 1, no. 4 (1993): 54; Aidan Clarke, “The 1641 Depositions,” in Treasures of the Library, Trinity College Dublin, edited by Peter Fox (Dublin: The Royal Irish Academy, 1986), 111. 6 depositions.3 In the late 1640s, the original Commission’s clerk, Thomas Waring, attempted to make a copy of the entire body of depositions, which he intended for publication. According to Aidan Clarke, Waring eventually became frustrated by his lack of progress and decided
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